Three Kingdoms Eschatology

It's a pity that Lan's City is two or three miles long and wide, and the places where these warships sailed are all in the middle of the city wall facing the water of Lan's City.So according to this distance, the arrows on both sides can't reach the warships five or six hundred steps away.Even if the warships on the side could reach it, the arrows were at the end of their strength, and they shot weakly on the shield on the side of the ship, and then bounced into the water.

It was only then that Sulehar regretted that he should have crossed the Amu Darya earlier or built a bamboo raft to completely seal off Lanshi City on the waterway.It's a pity that there is no medicine for regret in the world. He could only watch helplessly as these warships leaned against the water-facing wall of Lan's City, and unloaded soldiers and horses on the pier at the foot of the city.

At this time, a Sasanian general asked: "My lord, the enemy's reinforcements have already entered the city. Do we need to continue to attack Lan's City?"

Sulehar responded with a cold snort: "Of course we must continue to attack, otherwise our previous efforts would be in vain. What's more, I don't think there are many reinforcements from the enemy. They have crossed more than a hundred boats in total. .Although I can’t see clearly what’s in the cabin, but according to the size of the hull, each ship can carry at most more than ten infantrymen. In this way, there are no more than 2000 people at most. Our [-]-strong army still has an absolute advantage in strength.”

Just when Sulehar and the others rode their horses back to their original positions, they heard a huge roar, and all those who stood on the ground on foot could feel the ground trembling.The city wall of Lan's City, which was bombarded intensively, collapsed suddenly, and the dust shot up into the sky, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.Sasanian's trebuchets did not stop, they continued to throw stones one after another.It's just that this time they focused their targets on both sides of the gap in the collapsed city wall, intending to widen the gap.

As time went by, the gap in the entire city wall became bigger and bigger, until the gap in the city wall was widened to six or seven hundred steps, which was one-third of the width of the original city wall.Sasanian's counterweight trebuchets finally stopped bombardment.

But those manpower trebuchets continued to operate. Driven by the Sasanian generals wielding their leather whips, the captives brought by the Sassanian soldiers sweated profusely and pulled the ropes over and over again. In the Lan's city that has been shrouded in dust.In fact, this did not have much lethal effect on Liang Jun's defenders.However, the Sassanid soldiers believed that the manpower of these captives and hard labor was not in vain, and throwing an extra big stone could somewhat have an effect on defeating the enemy.

After a quarter of an hour, the dust gradually dissipated, and the scenery in the city could be vaguely seen.Only then did Sulehar wave his hand and shouted: "Attack!" The Sassanid army formation that had already lined up for the attack began to move towards the gap, and the speed was getting faster and faster.When it was close to the gap, it surged like a tide.

When the Sasanian soldiers at the front rushed to the ruins of the gap.Sulehar found countless fireballs rising in the sky.Liang Jun concentrated all the crossbows in the city near this gap, and checked all the falling points of the projectiles on the ruins of the gap.Nearly two hundred large and small explosive bombs fell into the gap several hundred steps wide at almost the same time.A wall of fire rose into the sky, and at the same time, javelins that covered the sky and the sun continued to fly out from behind the wall of fire.

The Sassanid formation was cut off by this wall of fire.Sulehar couldn't see what was going on inside the wall of fire, but he could see some Sasanian soldiers who had been burnt to the ground running away screaming and wailing.The Sasanian infantry in the back fell to the ground like autumn leaves under the intensive javelin projection.

Seeing this situation, Sulehar knew that if he persisted, he would only lose more, and it might even make the situation worse.He hastily ordered: "Withdraw! Let them withdraw!"

The horn sounded for Sasanian's retreat, and there were already a lot of casualties. When the soldiers in a panic heard the sound of the horn, they retreated impatiently.At this time, Sulehar found that the dust on the ruins of the gap had become thicker again, and then vaguely saw a whole row of war horses rising from the top of the ruins in the smoky dust.His face suddenly turned pale, and he hurriedly ordered to the left and right: "Let the cavalry on the two wings advance and block the gap!"

However, it was already too late, and the rows of cavalry of the Liang army had rushed down from the ruins like a tiger descending a mountain.The leader is a general with a black horse, white robe and silver spear. This person is not a beneficiary, but Ma Chao, the Xiaoqi general of Daliang.The troops that reinforced Lan's City from the waters of the Amu Darya River were the troops he personally led.

It turned out that Ma Chao, who was originally stationed in Congling, received Feng Yu's edict, and rushed over the mountains and mountains with his troops without stopping.Similarly, in order to reach Lan's City in the first time, he divided his troops into two.He took the three battalions of heavy cavalry from the headquarters to Lan's City first, and the rest of the personnel came after them as quickly as possible.

When Ma Chao first entered the city, he had just met the guards in the city, and before he could hand over the command, the walls of the Lan's City collapsed.He immediately led the cavalry he brought to deploy in the city to prepare for battle.Finally, when the Liang army forced the enemy back with concentrated bombardment of ballistas and intensive projection of javelins, Ma Chao felt that this was an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Sasanian army, and maybe the Sasanian army could be forced back in one battle.And it was he who led the three battalions of heavy armored cavalry to rush out of the gap in Lan's City.

Regardless of Sulehar or his generals, no one expected that Liang Jun would fight back with a weak force, and all of them were dispatched with heavy cavalry.Those ordinary Sasanian soldiers who were retreating were even more caught off guard. Ma Chao and his cavalry raised their lances and swept away like a huge broom.

Rows of Sasanian soldiers were stabbed to the ground by cavalry spears, and some were simply knocked down by iron cavalry and then trampled past. The already crowded Sassanian soldiers immediately fled in all directions screaming and wailing.Ma Chao, who rushed to the forefront, quickly pierced through the army formation. When he looked up, he happened to see the commander's chariot riding on Sulehar who was watching the battle at the back, and led dozens of personal guards and cavalry towards Su. Lehar came rushing here.Seeing that the situation was not good, Sulehar hurriedly ordered the driver to retreat.

In fact, there are a large number of Sasanian soldiers on both sides of him and the other two walls.There are two other teams of war cavalry coming from the two wings. If the middle-level generals command properly, the situation can still be stabilized.But these Sasanian generals were not mentally prepared. Seeing Liang Jun's unexpected attack, they were at a loss in a short time.Coupled with Sulehar's retreat, the morale of the army was even more turbulent, and they all seemed to retreat involuntarily.

Chapter 834 Play a big one

Outside Lan's city.Ma Chao's white shirt was stained red with the blood of the enemy.He galloped through the crowd of enemies with his war horse under his crotch, his silver spear flew up and down, stabbed left and right, and countless enemy soldiers who were fleeing for their lives were killed under his horse.

The more than a thousand heavy cavalry under his command also fought hard to kill the enemy.The frontal enemy forces were almost completely defeated.Some Sasanian generals tried to organize their soldiers to fight back, but were immediately swept away by Ma Chao's iron cavalry.

A Sasanian cavalry centurion roared on his horse.He was originally a cavalry deployed on the left flank.Before they received Sulehar's order to intercept the enemy's cavalry, they found that their own siege soldiers who were retreating had scattered and fled.The infantry phalanx that was originally lined up in the rear was also completely disrupted, and they followed Su Lahar to retreat.

His upper peak - a commander led them to intercept the enemy cavalry independently, but there were rebels and infantry blocking the way in front of him, and the horses couldn't run at all.And a Liang Jun cavalry team suddenly killed.After a while, the cavalry team dispersed in a mess.The cavalry who lost their unified command were also at a loss, and most of them followed the rout of the infantry and retreated.

But he found that the actual strength of the enemy cavalry was not many, as long as he could stabilize the position locally, he would be able to stabilize the overall situation, wouldn't it be a great achievement for him.So he shouted with all his strength, trying to gather his subordinates to fight Liang Jun

Finally, he gathered dozens of cavalrymen who had run away from the chaos, plus dozens of cavalrymen and infantry not under him, a total of more than a hundred people, and sent them to a group of Liang troops who were chasing and defeating the enemy. Iron cavalry intercepted.

The centurion's scimitar slashed at the shoulder of a cavalry cavalry from the Liang army, drawing out a spark.In the end, the blade was blocked by the basin-shaped bronze neck guard on the neck of Liang Jun knight.And the opponent's mace also hit his helmet at the same moment.Sassanian centurion's wrought iron helmet suddenly collapsed with a jingling sound, his head also buzzed, his eyes were blacked out and he fell off the horse, and then was trampled by the opponent's war horse with iron hooves.

Not far from the centurion's body, a Sasanian infantry raised a spear in his hand and quietly stabbed at a Liang army cavalry who was not paying attention to him.It's just that Liang Jun's war cavalry rushed up because of the sudden acceleration of the target, so the spear blade was deflected by a foot, and it stabbed the back of the opponent's thigh with a pop.Although the spear tip pierced through the armor, its power was reduced a lot due to the decrease in relative speed, and the spear tip came off before it pierced the bone.The stabbed Liang Jun grunted in pain, but ignored him, and swung his mace towards the target.

When the Sasanian infantry saw that he missed a hit and was about to run away, a silver spear pierced the back of his neck with lightning speed, and then he was thrown flying.The owner of this silver gun is Ma Chao.

At this time, he shouted loudly: "All sons, follow me!" After that, he took his war cavalry and stopped chasing the scattered Sasanian soldiers, but turned around to the other west wall.Half an hour later, in front of the west and south walls, the few enemy troops responsible for blocking Lan's City were also defeated immediately, and Ma Chao just returned to Lan's City from the south gate.

On the other side, Sulehar withdrew for four or five miles before he stabilized his mind. He hurriedly gathered the defeated troops and rearranged the defense.When the sun was setting, he finally stabilized the situation and regrouped the defeated cavalry under his command.As a result, after counting, it was found that there were only more than [-] people left, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Sulehar, who was already a shadow of a bow and snake, dared to return to the Lan's city with his soldiers until the next morning.But this time, he no longer dared to attack rashly.The trebuchets that were discarded outside the Lan's city yesterday had already been destroyed by the Liang army inside the city, and they couldn't bombard the Lan's city again.

At this time, Sulehar was already anxious.He mobilized [-] to [-] troops to launch the Battle of the Amu Darya, but he unexpectedly stopped his troops under the city of Lan's, which made it impossible to complete the planned goal.If you delay here for one more day, the southern pass of Suleiman and the province of Gedrosia on the southern front will be more dangerous, because most of the troops there are drawn by themselves to the Amu Darya.

But it's useless to be anxious now. With these troops, we can only rely on the method of siege to exhaust the food and grass in the city and those terrible explosive bombs in order to finally defeat the enemy.Sulehar, who made up his mind, dispatched a partial division to wade across the Amu Darya River in the shallow upstream, set up a camp on the other side of the Amu Darya River in Lanshi City, and cooperated with the Sassanian army on the west bank to set up a blockade. The iron chain of the river runs across the Amu Darya River.In order to cut off the water channel of Lanshi City.

Afterwards, Sulehar wrote another letter to his emperor Ardashir, requesting him to allocate some of the assembled troops to reinforce Gedrosia Province in advance, in case the Liang army found that the troops there were empty. Then, take bold offensive actions.Sulehar's request to Ardashir was extremely correct, but it was a pity that he was a few steps behind.

At the same moment when his letter was sent out, a large army of Liang troops had already arrived under the wall of Suguan Pass, ready to storm Suguan Pass.It turned out that after Dian Wei learned from Simmons about the emptiness of troops in Gedrosia Province, he immediately sent a letter to Guan Yu and Yan Huai.He also rushed to the west coast with his troops and horses and a large number of Guishuang servants who helped in the battle.Simmons ordered his lieutenant to go to the camp in the south of the Thar Desert to send his mercenary group.

After Yan Huai received the letter, he immediately went to Black Tiger Fort with his soldiers and horses, discussed with Guan Yu, and decided to play a big game.

They believed that including the soldiers that Dian Wei and Simmons would bring in some time in the future, the Liang army on the entire west coast would have as many as [-] troops.Not only can it attack Suguan, but it can even sweep the entire Gedrosia province, opening the channel in advance for the Liang army's large-scale attack in the future and providing strategic depth for Nanguishuang.

So Guan Yu and Yan Huai almost rushed out of the nest and killed Suguan City.They were also not worried about the safety of Black Tiger Fort and Xihekou Military Port, because Dian Wei and Simmons would lead troops to supplement them soon.

Guan Yu raised his eyes to look at the city wall of Suguan, and saw banners and flags all over the place, and the heads of the defenders were heaving behind the walls, not sticking out to look down the city.Guan Yu sneered and said: "It's just a bluff, pretending to have enough troops. You will reveal your secrets later."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and said, "Get ready to attack the city!" The phalanx of Liang Jun's infantry, which had already been lined up, began to move forward neatly on the beat of war drums.

The longbowmen began to shoot their bows and arrows at a distance of more than a hundred steps, shooting at all the Sasanian soldiers who dared to stick their heads out.After a few screams, no Sassanid soldiers looked around.

Immediately afterwards, the ballista set up behind the formation fired a fireball and shot it towards the head of the closed wall.At the same time, Liang Jun's infantry rushed towards the wall like a tsunami carrying the Yunti Mountain...

Chapter 835

At the head of Suguan city, flames were raging.The hundreds of Sasanian soldiers either died in the flames or fled.The exquisitely designed rolling wood and stone throwing facilities at the top of the city were either burned or rendered useless because no one was operating them.

When Liang Jun's infantry climbed to the top of the city, the fire on the top of the city had already diminished. When they stood on the hot floor of the top of the city, they found that there was not a single defender on the top of the city.But they were not in a hurry to attack, and continued to wait for more companions to climb to the top of the city. When a certain number of people gathered, they shouted and rushed down the city together.

At this time, two or three hundred defenders came to intercept them.A general commanding these Liang army infantry shouted: "Fire the javelin!"

The more than 200 Liang Army infantry at the front were condescending and threw the javelins in their hands fiercely.The Sassanid army saw the javelins attacking all over the sky, and those with shields raised their shields, while the spearmen without shields waved their spears wildly trying to get rid of the javelins flying towards them.Even so, many people were still shot and fell to the ground, screaming and wailing.

Because it was thrown condescendingly, its force was stronger, and some javelins even penetrated the shield.A certain Sasanian sword and shield soldier had just raised his shield over his head when he heard a puff, his arm shook, and a spear blade passed through the shield and pierced his eyes.In pain, he let out a scream, dropped the weapon in his hand and covered his eyes.This gap was revealed, allowing the second javelin to penetrate his chest at an oblique angle.There was also a Sasanian spearman, although he used his spear to push the opponent's javelin away.But the deflected javelin penetrated the body of another Sasanian soldier beside him.

Riding the Sasanian soldiers into a mess, Liang Junshan rushed down the stairway with a tsunami and collided with them, shield-to-shield, gun-to-knife fighting broke out.

The Sasanian defenders were originally small, and their individual combat power was much weaker than that of Liang Jun's soldiers. In addition, they were shot indiscriminately by javelins before, which damaged many people.After fighting for a while, they couldn't hold on anymore. Nejjart, the governor of Gedrosia province who was supervising the battle behind them, saw that something was wrong, so he ran away early, got on his mount and walked out of the west gate of Guancheng, facing the Northwest ran.

Some of the Sassanian army also escaped from the battlefield one after another, and finally turned into a rout of the entire army.Liang Jun quickly closed the gate and opened it.Guan Yu rushed into the city first, and seeing that the enemy had fled to the northwest, he also chased him out.The two thousand heavy cavalry and Qingqi Feiyu behind him followed closely behind.Guan Yu rode galloping under his crotch, dancing with the Qinglong Yanyue Saber in his hand, beheading an unknown number of enemy soldiers, until his battle robe was soaked in blood and he could not see a single enemy soldier before returning to Suguan.In fact, almost all the Sasanian infantry in Suguan were killed, and only Nejjart and a few cavalry managed to escape.

Guan Yu and Yan Huai were willing to give up easily after they succeeded. After discussing with each other, Yan Huai led [-] infantry to guard Suguan.

Guan Yu led two thousand light and heavy cavalry, and three or four thousand servants recruited from the nobles of Guishuang continued to sweep the province of Gedrosia along the northern coast of the Western Ocean.In fact, the combat power of these Guishuang servants is very weak, and it is a burden to let them go to the battlefield.But bringing them has two advantages. One is that they can strengthen their prestige, and the other is that after Guan Yu captures the city, they can let them guard the city without Guan Yu needing to allocate precious troops from his cavalry to defend the city.

In the next few days, Guan Yu was as powerful as a bamboo, and successively broke through five large and small cities in the province of Gedrosia. If all the Guishuang servants he brought were deployed to defend the cities, he would have won more cities.This is not because the Sasanian army is so vulnerable, but that these cities often don't even have conscripts, only a hundred soldiers, plus some strong men who were urgently recruited to defend the city, how could it be possible to defend the city.

At this time, Guan Yu's two thousand riders were marching on a Sasanian official road on the Gedrosia Plain outside the southern edge of the Persian Plateau.The target this time is Gwadar City, an important Sasanian military port on the north coast of the Western Ocean.Guan Yu was limited by his strength and could not win more cities, so he simply took the most important port city of Sasanian in Gedrosia.

And at the same moment, Nejjart, who was retreating to Gwadar Port, was frowning and thinking about how to confess to the superior.A charcoal pencil is picked up and put down, put down and picked up again, hesitating.At this time, a soldier rushed into his study in a panic and reported: "My lord governor, the front scouts have reported that Liang Jun is attacking Gwadar Port. And they took the province in just a few days. Four or five cities."

When Nejjart heard this, his already ugly face became even uglier.He didn't hesitate any longer, and took up the charcoal pen and swished two revisions, one to Sulehar, the eastern chief who was commanding the battle on the front line of the Amu Darya, and one to his emperor, His Majesty Ardashir.

Not long after the two messengers galloped out of Gwadar Port on fast horses, Guan Yu's army rushed to the city.The bell tower at the top of the city sounded a warning sound, and the four gates were immediately closed, and a large group of Sasanian soldiers ran up to the four city walls.Although the troops in the province of Gedrosia are empty, the troops in Gwadar Port are relatively abundant.The remaining elite soldiers in the province are all concentrated in this city because it is so important.

After a while, Guan Yu lined up two thousand cavalry and marched down to Gwadar Port.Then he rode his horse forward slowly, and came to a place more than a hundred battles outside the city wall. When he looked up, he couldn't help taking a breath of air.The walls of this Gwadar city were far taller than any city he had ever seen in his life.Moreover, the city wall does not seem to be a rammed earth city wall wrapped with stone bricks, but is made of large blocks of granite stones.Such a city wall, not to mention that I didn't bring siege equipment, even if I brought the most powerful counterweight trebuchet in the Liang army, it would be impossible to blow it down after five days and five nights.

Even so, Guan Yu was encouraged by the previous series of victories, thinking that even if the city was strong, the defenders might be few.Maybe it will be like the scene I encountered when attacking several cities before. As soon as my hundred soldiers climbed to the top of the city, the defenders began to flee.Besides, I have traveled such a long distance and come all the time, so how can I return empty-handed like this?

Thinking of this, Guan Yu waved his hand and said, "Send me the order to attack the city!" One of his personal guards immediately took out the horn and blew a few times.More than two hundred heavy armored cavalry immediately rushed out to the city wall, followed by more than a thousand light cavalry.Fifty battles away from the city, Qingqi Feiyu ran horizontally, and pointed his bow and arrow at the top of the city. As long as there were enemy soldiers showing their figures, they would open their bows and release their arrows.

The heavy cavalry rushing to the front began to throw claws, but the first round was unsuccessful.Because the claws thrown with bare hands cannot reach the city wall that is five or six battles high.Fortunately, Liang Jun was prepared for this situation. They took out the portable ballista and tried to shoot the claws with the ballista...

Chapter 836

The claws fired by the ballista flew into the air with the rope.They were barely able to reach the head of Gwadar City.With the crisp sound of metal colliding with stones, the claws grabbed the edge of the stone wall at the top of the city.The dozen or so Liang Jun heavy riders who fought in the front line stepped on the city wall, dragging the rope with their hands interlaced, and climbed towards the top of the city.

Seeing this, Guan Yu was barely relieved.But then he saw the heads of some enemy soldiers emerging from the top of the city.Those Qingqi Feiyu who were riding their horses and cruising along the city wall immediately opened their bows and released arrows, and the arrows roared towards the city.There was only a scream from the top of the city, and then the rest of the heads shrank back.But when more than a dozen heavy cavalry knights climbed to less than two battles away from the top of the city, the figures of enemy soldiers appeared again, and there were more of them than before.

Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu fired arrows again, but this time the Sasanian soldiers immediately erected a large shield nearly one person high to cover the crenel, and then used the iron rod in their hands to poke out the gap in the large shield and pry up the claws. .For stone city walls, the hook claws cannot be embedded in the deep grip, and it is easy to fall off.With a crunching sound, the claws were pried off one by one.Those Liang Jun heavy cavalry riders who were about to climb to the top of the city immediately fell down, screaming in panic in mid-air, and fell to the hard ground with a muffled sound, and then fell silent.

Seeing the loss of more than ten cavalry under his command in just a few moments, Guan Yu felt distressed.Immediately ordered: "Retreat!" The guards quickly took out a small gong and started to knock it.The heavy cavalry who were about to continue throwing their claws at the top of the city rode back after hearing the sound.

Guan Yu rode his horse and walked slowly along the city wall, but his brows were knitted together, thinking hard about a strategy to defeat the enemy.At this moment, he heard an exclamation in his ear. "General, a large number of unknown soldiers and horses are coming from the northwest!".

Guan Yu was startled, and raised his eyes to look into the distance. Sure enough, on the horizon in the northwest, the dust was flying, covering the sky and the sun.Countless banners and gun shadows, and the figures of a large number of war cavalry are rising from the horizon.He shouted: "No, it must be the enemy's reinforcements. Let's withdraw quickly!"

Although it is still impossible to see the banner of this army, but with a little brainstorming, it can be imagined that this army cannot be another Liang army, nor can it be other opponents of Sassan or a third-party army. , then it can only be the army of Sasanian.

Guan Yu expected well.Ardashir was gathering an army in Persis, a city in the middle of the Persian plateau, when he received the rush from Sulehar, the governor of the three eastern provinces.Regarding Sulehar's remonstrance, he never ignored and underestimated, and hastily mobilized half of the [-] troops that had just been assembled to reinforce Gedrosia.

When the reinforcements marched [-] li near the city of Gwadar, they just bumped into the messenger sent by Nejjart to Persis, and only then did they know that the main force of the enemy army had already threatened the city of Gwadar.Originally, this army was going directly to Suguan, and would not pass through Gwadar City. When the general heard the news, he immediately turned the direction of the whole army and rushed towards Gwadar.

Guan Yu's [-] iron cavalry were retreating according to the same route at this time, but they had just walked a few miles when they found that there was dust flying in front of them again, and there was also the sound of horseshoes galloping like thunder.It turned out that when the Sasanian general was approaching, he was afraid that Guan Yu's two thousand lone troops would flee in the face of the wind, so he ordered the cavalry troops in the army to detour to the east of Gwadar City to intercept Guan Yu.

Guan Yu pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the sound of the horse's hooves for a few breaths, and then he recognized that there were at least five thousand horses to deal with.Guan Yu made a quick calculation in his mind. If his weak soldiers, who ran long distances for several nights and days, captured five cities in a row, and suffered setbacks at the gate of Gwadar, if they fought recklessly with these five thousand cavalry, they could only watch and die. Suffer a big loss.

He looked to the west again, and saw that the Sasanian army had formed a seemingly endless infantry phalanx, shouting passwords amidst the sound of orderly footsteps, pressing down on Guan Yu's cavalry.The five-foot-long spears in their hands pointed to the sky, moving forward slowly like a forest.Looking to the north, it was the edge of the Persian Plateau, where a high cliff with hundreds of battles descended vertically.It is also impossible for Liang Jun to break through from there.

Beads of sweat oozed from Guan Yu's forehead.Now there is only one direction left to break through the encirclement, the south.But Guan Yu knew that although he looked at it at a glance now, he could not see any obstacles in the south.But he knew that as long as he traveled a short distance to the south, he would return to the northern coast of the Western Ocean.

The sound of five thousand cavalry's galloping horseshoes was getting closer and closer, as was the resonant sound of the huge Sasanian infantry phalanx's loud footsteps and the sound of passwords.Guan Yu swallowed and spit, and with a heartbroken, he pointed to the south with the Qinglong Yanyue knife: "Let's retreat to the south first, and then make plans!"

After all, Guan Yu led the lone army cavalry under his command to gallop southward on the undulating slope.Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, the surface of the sea emerged from the horizon and was reflected in Guan Yu's eyes.With a groan, he slowed down his mount, and immediately stood on the edge of the coastal cliff, quickly scanning his surroundings.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he found a terrain that was convenient for defense.It was a nearly cylindrical rock platform not far away. The surrounding ground was about three or four feet away from the high place, but there was a slope less than three feet wide that could be zigzag up.Even better, behind the stone platform, there seems to be a path that can lead back and forth to the beach under the cliff.

Guan Yu pointed at the round platform with the long knife in his hand and said, "Boys, let's retreat to the stone platform and wait for the reinforcements to come."

Not long after, Liang Jun's war cavalry filed in a single file, leading their horses onto the round platform one by one.Guan Yu could see more clearly at this time, there was indeed a path winding downwards behind the round platform, which could lead to the beach under more than ten battles.But at this time, the enemy's cavalry had rushed under the round platform.Of course they didn't dare to attack the stone platform along the three-foot-wide path. They were lighting lanterns in the latrine, looking for death.So nearly [-] war cavalry are just arrayed in the distance.A few warriors galloped out to check the terrain to see if there were any loopholes that could allow Guan Yu to slip away.

After a while, the huge Sasanian infantry phalanx also rushed over.In addition to the Sasanian general who led the troops, Nejjart also came out of Gwadar City and joined the pursuit team.The stone platform with a radius of less than a hundred battles was already full of troops. Guan Yu looked down at the platform from a condescending height, and saw a dark, boundless, densely packed figure.Then he asked the soldiers anxiously: "The carrier pigeons that you were asked to release just now, have you released them yet?"

"General Qi, just now we released our last carrier pigeon. But..."

Guan Yu asked sullenly, "But what?"

"However, the pigeon's nest is in Xihekou, which may be a safe distance from Xihekou for the return journey of the pigeon. There is no guarantee that the pigeon will be able to fly back to the pigeon's nest in Xihekou."

Guan Yu sighed and said, "In other words, we can only resign ourselves to fate." Then he glared and said, "This is top-secret news, inform everyone who knows it, and don't disclose it to anyone, otherwise it will be a crime of shaking the morale of the army!"

The Lingbing body was shocked, and he hurriedly responded: "No!"

Chapter 837 Battle of Stone Platform

Six or seven miles to the east of Gwadar Port, the Sasanian army has surrounded the stone platform where Guan Yu retreated.Among them, Nejjart, the governor of Gedrosia Province, has the highest rank, and Ardashir also ordered the reinforcements to arrive at Gedrosia, and Nejart will be under unified command.So at the moment, Nejjart is the supreme commander of this [-]-[-] army.

Nejjart looked at the stone platform that was raised three or four times above the ground and had a lot of moss growing on the walls, and he was not in a hurry to order an attack.However, the generals under his command have already started to act, mobilizing some forward soldiers to form an array, ready to attack.At the same time, Guan Yu on the stone platform was not idle. While commanding the soldiers to defend, he sent some soldiers to follow the winding path and lead all the horses to the cliff on the side of the stone platform near the sea.

A general of the Sassanid Army reported to Nejjart: "General, our army is ready to launch an attack at any time. Please give the order!"

Nejjart raised his hand and said, "Wait a minute, I always feel that Liang Jun deliberately retreated to this stone platform. Although we attack them from two sides, if they try their best to break through, they can still find a gap and run out with a small number of soldiers and horses." .And now they can only be wiped out, and there is absolutely no possibility of escape. Then why do they have to put themselves in a desperate situation?"

The two or three generals on the left and right couldn't answer, and one of them replied indiscriminately: "Maybe he was trapped by himself because he saw our army encircled and panicked and didn't know what to do."

Nejjart shook his head. He knew that General Liang Jun would never be so stupid and incompetent, and said in his mouth: "Go, send out scouts, check the left and right, make sure they are really in a desperate situation, and see if there are any left. Some retreat that we don't know about."

After Nejjart finished speaking, his personal guards immediately went to deliver the order.After a while, Sasanian's scouts brought back news to Nejjart.

"General Qi, there is a beach hundreds of steps long on the side of the stone platform. There is indeed a path leading directly to the beach on the stone, and Liang Jun is transferring their war horses to the beach..."

When Nejjart heard this, he was startled and interrupted the other party: "Oh? Is there another way out of the beach?"

"General Qi, the beach has only one entrance and exit, and the rest of the area is covered with cliffs as high as a dozen or so. A small number of people can climb up, but once they are discovered by us, it is impossible for them to climb up."

Nejjart pondered for a moment, and thought to himself: "Could it be that the Liang army is going to retreat from the sea, and this location has been agreed with their fleet long ago? No wonder they moved their horses to the beach at the bottom of the cliff." But he thought again Then he said: "No, they obviously didn't know that our army was coming to help, so how did they think of the current difficulties? If they didn't think of this, they and their navy had already agreed to retreat here. Nonsense. As for moving the horses to the beach at the bottom of the cliff, it is more likely that the horses will be exposed to the round platform and hit the arrows during the battle. Not to mention the casualties of the horses, they may also mess up their own soldiers."

Nejjart thought about it but didn't understand it, and secretly thought, no matter what, it would be good to hurry up and wipe out this Liang army.He was about to mobilize the army to attack, but another thought came to him, he rode his horse to a place a hundred paces in front of the stone platform, and whispered a few words to the soldiers around him.

Immediately, several of his personal soldiers shouted at the top of their voices: "My commander, please come out and speak!", "Please come out, the enemy commander, my commander has something to say." Repeatedly shouting several times Just now, Nejjart saw a big man with a red face and long beard holding a long knife walking to the edge of the round platform.

This person is of course Guan Yu. Guan Yu stroked his long beard and said proudly: "Whatever the enemy general wants to say, tell me quickly. I am still waiting for a battle." He spoke Chinese, Nejar Te naturally didn't understand, but a translator from Guishuang next to Guan Yu quickly translated these words aloud.

Only then did Nejjart respond with a smile on his face: "I am the governor of the Sasanian Empire Gedrosia Province. The enemy general please report your name first."

Guan Yu said coldly: "A certain is the county governor of Daliang Mountain, and so is Guan Yu, the general of Zhenxi. It is enough for us to know each other's names, so there is no need to talk too much nonsense. If you have anything else to say, say it quickly. Let's go to war quickly."

Nejjart thought to himself, you think I am willing to delay the time, but I am afraid that you will delay the time.I just want to see if there is any possibility of persuading you to surrender, otherwise the army would have been mobilized to launch a general attack.But he still had a smile on his face, and continued: "It turns out that it is General Guan Yu, who has been admiring him for a long time. The commander said straight to the point, your few troops have been surrounded by my tens of thousands of troops, and your only way out is to jump to Go into the sea. Therefore, if you want to live, there is only one way, and that is to surrender our army."

Guan Yu laughed wildly and said: "I am a dignified general in the kingdom of heaven, how can I surrender to the barbarians like you. This is wishful thinking. Even if there is only one soldier left in our army, we will fight to the end. It is absolutely impossible to surrender. Just give up your heart." As soon as the words fell, twenty or thirty arrows rushed towards Nejjart.Nejjart could already hear the sound of arrows piercing through the air.It must be too late for him to hide, one of the arrows is only six or seven feet away from his face.

Nejjart subconsciously closed his eyes, thinking that he was going to die, but nothing happened except for two or three screams.It turned out that the arrow was at the end of its strength, and its flight trajectory at reduced speed was seriously bent, falling towards the ground, hitting his horse chest armor and bouncing to the ground.As a result, only three arrows hit the few soldiers in front of Nejjart.

When Nejjart opened his eyes again, Guan Yu had long since disappeared.Nejart no longer hesitated, waved his hand and said: "The whole army is attacking!"

At this time, he had expected that Guan Yu would not have any naval reinforcements. The reason was very simple. If the opponent had a navy to assist him, he would definitely delay his attack as much as possible.But just now Guan Yu was eager to fight, and rejected his persuasion without any nonsense.And the other party obviously has the will to die, so there is no way they are waiting for reinforcements.Nejjart did not expect that Guan Yu did this out of his own character, and secondly, it was to mislead Nejjart.

The soldiers of the Sassanian army rushed to the stone platform amidst the sound of drums.The sword and shield hands in the front row, with the big shield as a wall, approached the round platform layer by layer, while the crossbowmen in the rear kept throwing arrows on the stone platform.Although they couldn't see the opponent's figure in their line of sight, they believed that with intensive coverage and shooting, some soldiers of the opponent could always be injured or killed, playing a suppressive role.

A moment later, a large number of arrows were also thrown down from the stone platform, which was the return shot of Liang Jun Qingqi Feiyu.

Chapter 838 The Creeping Cavalry

Arrows from both sides roared and flew staggered in the air.Liang Jun's heavy cavalry squatted halfway on the ground in the center of the stone platform, raising the small round shields specially used for cavalry above their heads.If it is on flat ground, compared with a large shield, this small shield has very weak protection against arrows.But now Sassan's arrows are thrown from the bottom up, and they can only shoot at the Liang Jun riders at a very oblique angle from top to bottom.Therefore, these Liang Jun only need to raise this small shield above their heads to cover the top, and they can block most of the arrows.

Sasanian's infantry, covered by large shields, had rushed to the entrance of the path under the stone platform, and began to file and kill along the path.At first, they had a smooth ride. This path was obviously in the blind spot of Qingqi Feiyu's projectile on the stone platform, so it was impossible for the arrow to fall here, and no Liang army soldier came to stop it.So after a while, they rushed to the top of the stone platform.

Unexpectedly, at this time, they heard a rumbling sound in their ears.The two Sasanian infantry in front looked up and saw a huge boulder sliding down the slope of this path. I don’t know how Liang Jun found this stone with a diameter of almost two feet. Like a ball.They were shocked and jumped to the side in a hurry, but they forgot that they were two feet high, and they fell and broke their legs immediately after landing.